Sentence examples for school tale from inspiring English sources

There are better satires of youth's obsession with cool (see Ned Vizzini's "Be More Chill" ), but this account of Kate's rise, fall and rise makes for an entertaining and occasionally surprising high school tale.

In the hours that followed, it was thrilling to see online conversations ensue as writers spoke with passion and a deep nostalgia about their favorite Duncan novels: the paranormal boarding school tale Down a Dark Hall, the chilling teen thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Killing Mr Griffin, countless others.

It also very specifically starts to reveal the chassis of a literary tradition prized by film buffs of all ages: the boarding school or prep school tale, which has been so successfully adapted to film as to qualify as a cinematic sub-genre.

Instead of the Sunday school tale of the ark and animals, we are given a grownup story of a family struggling to be faithful, obedient, loving, and compassionate, in the face of widespread intolerable evil.

At bedtime, my eight-year-old daughter and I are currently reading Enid Blyton's girls' boarding school tales.

He is writing a monograph Ethnic identities within a multi-ethnic school: Tales and social currencies of Filipino students in Hong Kong (under contract with Springer).

But much of her work is firmly anchored in the past, whether it be Jordan Scott's boarding-school tale Cracks or Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles.

That history hovers in "Chasing Mavericks" as the macramé-and-chakra backdrop for a resolutely old-school tale, by turns seductive and cornball, about a master, a young grasshopper and the Way of the Wave.

On a second reading, what appeared to be a high-school tale spatchcocked on to the story of an amateur detective is seen to be a ground-laying exercise of immense skill.

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness Walker Bookss, £12.99) is guaranteed to entertain and fascinate as it plays with and pokes fun at trends and conventions in young adult fiction (vampires, demons, paranormal activity) while showcasing the outwardly uneventful lives of those usually cast as background characters in the average fantasy high-school tale.

There are more casual limb-jerkers (the bunking-off-school tale of Never Miss a Beat; the raucous Can't Say What I Mean) and many barrow-boy shout-a-longs (the dull Good Days Bad Days, the much jauntier Always Happens Like That, with Lily Allen on backing vocals).